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Alypius
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or (See ALPHEIUS).
ST., the Stylite, so called because he remained for more than fifty years on the top of a pillar, like Simeon and the other Stylites. He was born at Adrianople. At thirty-two years of age, having distributed to the poor all his property, he took up his abode at the top of a pillar, where he remained till his death, about 610, the precise date being un-known. His day in the Greek calendar is Nov. 26. — Baillet, Nov. 26.
a learned architect, was commanded by the emperor Julian to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem, with the avowed object of falsifying the prophecies of our Saviour with regard to that structure. It is said that while the workmen were excavating for the foundation, balls of fire issued from the earth and destroyed them. Alypius died about A.D. 363.
bishop OF CASAREA, in Cappadocia, was one of the metropolitans to whom the emperor Leo wrote respecting the Council of Chalcedon and the death of Proterius. He is also mentioned as assenting to the deposition of Lampetius, a Messalian, whom he had ordained, and who was convicted of immorality. See Labbe, Concil. 4, 1904 sq.; Photius, Bibl. 52.
a priest of the Church, OF CONSTANTINOPLE, who lived in A.D. 430. He wrote an Epistle to St. Cyril, exhorting him to contend against the heresy of Nestorius.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Alypius'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/alypius.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
